Cora protested, "Dmitri, stop it! You need to let her sleep in my room tonight!" 

"No mother. I was expecting that the two of you must have slept by now, and that is why I even came to check you but unfortunately, this isn't happening. So I am forced to take Adri back with me," replied Dmitri and shamelessly took his wife out of his mother's room. Cora was left with feelings of guilt. 

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The way Dmitri pulled Adrianna all the way up to their bedroom, it was as though if he would stop even for a second, Adrianna would run back or Cora might call her back. He stopped by the bed, tucked Adrianna in the blanket, switched off the lights and in order to be safely inside his room, he kissed her passionately on lips. As soon as he kissed, the canopy around them circled the bed with pink flowers blossoming. 

Even if Cora wanted to come, she would have thought twice before disturbing them. Feeling satisfied, Dmitri smiled and covered himself with the blanket. 

Meanwhile Adrianna was in a complete state of shock. The way her husband acted was way too embarrassing for her even recount. She wanted to slap him on his shoulders, but he just didn't care about it. Soon she found his muscular arms around her waist as he pulled her towards him and whispered, "Nice, wasn't it?" He chuckled. 

Adrianna smacked her forehead. 

Next day before going to the academy, Cora made sure that Adrianna ate good breakfast. Once she left, she rushed to take a bath and go to the field. 

When Adrianna reached the academy, she came to know that the brown haired boy who was in her group in the potions class and who had given her a pink flower when he saw her for the first time. They were with Lile now. "Hello Arcane." Adrianna greeted him. Arcane just nodded at her. Lile had been feeding him with wrong information about Adrianna and he was very agitated. He wanted to take Lile's revenge from Adrianna. 

This time the field was divided into eight segments for the quarterfinals. Adrianna and Arcane went to the segment that was dedicated to them. Adrianna noticed that this time the segment was bigger. But just like last time the segments were protected by invisible walls all around. The competitors took their positions and waited for the "Start" announcement. Adrianna looked around to see whether her family was there or not. As soon as her gaze fell on them, she noticed Cora waving at her. Ed and Dmitri had both stood up as they shouted her name, which she couldn't hear. She waved them back with a smile. 

Arcane was looking at her as though he was studying her, ignorant about the fact that Adrianna had already got into his mind and knew what was the first spell he was about to cast. With the way she read his mind, it appeared that he was very disconcerted. Was he out there to take revenge or face her as a competitor? 

Adrianna thought about thinking how to deal with him rather than analyzing his mind. Yesterday Cora had spoken about people who would get flustered easily. She waited for Arcane to make a mistake even before the competition started. 

"Start!" the mic boomed with a hoarse voice. 

Immediately the audience could see sparks and different lights passing inside each segment. 

A day before there were two minor injuries only but today the professors were ready to reach out to any student instantly. They were scared that the students would become more aggressive as the competition advanced. 

When Arcane heard "Start", he pointed his wand at Adrianna and said, "Ponos". Adrianna was ready for that. She deflected the spell with her wand. Arcane did not give her the time to recover from it and quickly casted "Ponos" again. Adrianna managed to stop the white light that had come out from his wand with a golden barricade that she formed in front of her. But Arcane had cast one spell after the other in order to penetrate that barricade. Adrianna was confused. Why was Arcane so agitated? As she was thinking that the barricade started to break with the golden light disintegrating into small sparks that flew around her. It could only take that many spells. 

The last part of the barricade broke. Arcane pointed his wand at her and shouted, "Bledia!" 

Adrianna scorned. She pointed her wand at him and shouted "Duxlux!" 

Coral taught that spell. It guided the spell in front back to its origin, which was the wand of the opponent. It had to be cast rightly so that the spell returned to the wand. In case it was cast in a wrong way, it could hit the wizard who was casting it. Since the spell that was casted by Arcane was supposed to make the rival bleed unto death, it was important for Adrianna to guide it back with precision. In a matter of few seconds Arcane, wand received the spell back, but the force at which it received made him fly back to the wall. Arcane was thrown against the wall. The wall turned into something rubbery and he was saved from getting injured. 

When he recovered, Adrianna was pointing her wand at him. Before he could react with a spell, she had lifted him into the air. "What is your problem?" she asked him. 

"You are my problem! You were in our group and then you left us, went against Lile and destroyed her reputation. You are a traitor. You can never become the queen of the wizard kingdom. I will make sure that you never ever become the queen," shouted Arcane. 

Adrianna snapped her fingers and a white light escaped her hands, which tangled Arcane all around. "Don't try to force yourself out because the light is going to grip you tighter each time you do that." 

"Adrianna, you cheat!" he shouted. "Adrianna, you need my wand for this competition to stop."

"I know," said Adrianna and then with a snap of her fingers, the light that had leashed him broke loose. Arcane, who was suspended seven feet above the ground fell with a loud thud. 

The audience broke into laughter.